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Women and Minorities Still Lacking In Large Law Firms (JD Journal)
JD Journal, October 17, 2016
Women and Minorities Still Lacking In Large Law Firms
“Very little progress is being made by the large New York City law firms to include women and minorities in their numbers. A New York City Bar Association conducted a confidential survey which found that ‘progress remains incremental and attrition and pipeline numbers are not where they should be.’ New York is the powerhouse of the $1 billion-plus legal industry, paving the way for other law firms to follow. The law firms included in the survey mostly have 51 to over 500 lawyers were required by the Association to participate for the first time this year. Included in the survey was the breakdown of lawyers by ethnicity and gender instead of solely by a ‘minority” classification.'”
